The journalist and broadcaster Rod Liddle has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
He died at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough on Sunday evening.
Liddle was a high-profile columnist on The Sunday Times and The Sun, and had a weekly column in The Spectator, as well as a Times Radio show.
“We’re all very saddened and shocked at the sudden passing of our wonderful father,” his children, Wilder, Tyler and Emmy said.
“He raised us much as you might imagine, to be inquisitive, brave and always humorous.
